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Contributing architect of Patriot Act to speak, Feb. 17

Posted February 11, 2005; 05:26 p.m.

by Tom Bartus

A lecture on "The USA Patriot Act and Civil Liberties Since 9/11" is set for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, in 16 Robertson Hall.

Speaking will be Viet Dinh, professor of law and co-director of
Asian law and policy studies at the Georgetown University Law Center.
From 2001 to 2003, Dinh left Georgetown to serve as the assistant
attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal
Policy. He was charged with the evaluation of the Department of Justice
priorities, policies and practices post-9/11, and played an integral
role in the development of the USA Patriot Act and revision of the
attorney general's guidelines.